difficult: not all law students matriculated, some matriculated at more than one university, some may not have remained long. The best figures now (with his detailedcaveat) are probably those of Robert Feenstra. For the periods that concern us he estimates Scottish law students at Leiden to be for the period-, for -, for - , for -, for -, for -. At Franeker, where Ulrich Huber was law professor, Feenstra gives students for -, for -, for -, for -, for - , for -. Scottish law students at Groningen and Utrecht were comparable in numbers. Feenstra states that for the period- , when the total number of candidates admitted to the Scottish Faculty of Advocates was , , or about two-fifths, are known to have studied in the Netherlands. Thus, Dutch jurists exercised great influence on Scottish lawyers and judges in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Equally to the point is the fact that students - even today - buy books that are recommended by their professors and that are inherent in their tradition. Availability of books is important in shaping the course of legal development. Books that are not available cannot be used and cannot be influential. Scottish public libraries, unlike those in London, became rich in continental, particularly Dutch, law books. James Kent stated: A curious fact is mentioned by Mr. Robertson, in his Treatise on the Law of Personal Succession. He says that of the ninety-one continental writers on the subject of the Conflict of Laws, quoted or referred to by the American jurists, Livermore and Story, a large proportion of them was not to be found in the public law libraries in London, but all of them, except six, were to be met with in that admirable repertory of books of law, the library of the faculty of advocates in Edinburgh. Mr. Livermore, while a practicing lawyer in New Orleans, had collected from continental Europe most of those rare works as part of his valuable law library, and which library he bequeathed by will to Harvard University, in Massachusetts.151 151 Commentaries on American Law, 2, 12th ed. (1873), p. 455, note b.
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